Small scale fun, usually unfunded and often un-publishedFlower selling - Buying and selling accomplished differently from the sales pitches in Clark & Pinch's wonderful 'The Hard Sell' (available for no not £5, no not £3, no not £1 BUT AN AMAZING 1 pence. Yes just 1 pence for a lost classic of economic transactions. Just look for yourself on Amazon)

Crowds watching events - So far only a short paper on how the crowd respond to the play on Centre Court at the Wimbledon Tennis tournament.

Driving safely, with Barry Brown, Maurice Nevile & Pentti Haddington - An idea that the ESRC didn't quite go for on examining how people longingly drive safely and assess the driving practices of other drivers and road users.Warehousing, with Tim Dant & Barry Brown - Another ESRC application that came back. Simply, we would like to look inside those vast buildings owned by Tesco and Amazon where logistics operations happen. They are the contemporary equivalent of the 20th century assembly lines in the UK.

The public and private spaces of Suburbia, with Liz Stokoe - A project we have been planning for several years to look at how suburbanites actually inhabit their curving roads and cul-de-sacs.

The play in the playing of computer games, with Stuart Reeves and Barry Brown - A growing collection of studies of different kinds of computer gameplay.

Wayfinding and map-use, with Barry Brown - Once we have finished our current study of GPS as used by pedestrian we hope to assemble our collection of writings into a book on this topic.

Family meal times, with Sally Wiggins. A growing corpus of video data that we really must write more out of.

Seeing, noticing and identifying: perceptual skills in hunting, fishing and finding lost stuff, with Barry Brown